Tatjana Patitz

Tatjana Patitz is a German model and actress.

Patitz was born in Hamburg, Germany and raised in Skanör, Sweden. She began working as a model in Paris in the mid 1980s at the age of 17. Though rarely participating in runway shows, during this period she regularly worked with the likes of Herb Ritts, Sheila Metzner and Peter Lindbergh. In 1985, she graced the cover of British Vogue for the first time. She became a top model and then one of the defining supermodels of the late 20th Century. She was still very much in demand throughout the 2000s, periodically returning to runway for select designers.